Single blog post file with localized paths

#1

Hi, I am building a localized site that includes 2 localised blogs. The Localization setup is a bit different to the localization for pages and I’m struggling to achieve the following:

  • My site locales are actually just variations of English (Australian, American etc)
  • For this reason, I want to have one post file and use t() helpers inline for words which are spelt differently.
  • When my site builds, I’d like the following output example.com/{lang}/posts/{title}

This approach is very well supported with pages, but I’ve been struggling to achieve with the prefix, name, source, permalink options.

Can this be achieved?

#2

Can you show us your config.rb? I don’t use I18n with blog in the same project, but maybe something can be spotted. When you say: 2 blogs, do you mean two different blogs in the same project, or two localizations?

#3

Hi @komor72
A good summary of the difference between localisation in blog plugin vs vanilla middleman I18n can be found in this post. https://github.com/middleman/middleman/issues/1144#issuecomment-31557176

What I don’t like about their solution is that it requires you to duplicate the files for each locale, rather than using the inline I18n helpers. Whereas with pages, I can interchangeably use one file for all locales with t() helpers or use one file per locale.

#4

Oh my… Seems to be messy… Have you tried to use t() in layout, article layout and partials? If it doesn’t work there too, then it really is a downer.